Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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